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2024 UNI Volleyball Highlight Video

Panthers secured back-to-back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular season and tournament titles!

 

  • Panthers won 21 consecutive matches for the second year in a row

  • 26-8 overall record, UNI clinched its third consecutive MVC regular season and tournament titles (first team to do this since 2009)

  • Second straight 18-0 regular season run through conference play

  • UNI selected as one of the top 32 seeds in the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row

  • 7-wins against the NCAA RPI's Top 100, including three Top 50 wins

  • #1 in the nation in for second straight year in kills per set, and third in the nation in assists per set

  • Challenging pre-season matches against Dayton, Ohio State, West Virginia, Creighton, Louisville, Texas A&M, and SMU

MVC Tournament Champions Year's List
MVC Regular Season Champions
MVC Tournament Champions Year's List
MVC Tournament Champions Year's List
MVC Tournament Champions Year's List
MVC Tournament Champions Year's List

NCAA Tournament

This year marked UNI's 26th NCAA Tournament appearance.

For the second straight year the Panthers were awarded one of the top 32 seeds in the NCAA Tournament.  UNI would draw Big Ten opponent Illinois in the first round of the tournament in Louisville, KY.  The Panthers dismantled the Illini in a 3-1 victory, securing the programs 17th NCAA tournament victory.

UNI would then face host and #1 seeded Louisville in what turned out to be an epic battle and one of the best NCAA tournament matches EVER.  The Panthers were up 14-12 in the 5th set to potentially pull one of the biggest upsets in tournament history, but ended up falling 20-22.

NCAA Bracket
Olivia vs Illinois
Post Match Celebration vs Illinois
Post Match Celebration vs Illinois
UNI vs Illinois
Intros vs Louisville
Erin
Celebration
Blocking
Celebration
Serving & Bench
Attacking
Block
Attacking
Celebration
Blocking
Setting
Setting
Passing
Celebration
Passing
#1
#1

in the NATION

UNI ranked #1 in the national for kills per set (14.6) for the second straight year.

NCAA Team Stats - Kills Per Set
#3
#3

in the NATION

UNI ranked #3 in the national for assists per set (13.6).

NCAA Team Stats - Assists Per Set
Top 25
Top 25 Poll

National Ranking

UNI finished the 2024 season just outside the final Top 25 Coaches Poll, finishing 27th!

AVCA Top 25 Poll
Attendance Ranking
Attendance Ranking

#28

UNI finished the 2024 season ranked in Top 30 in the nation in attendance for all home matches.  Ahead of Iowa State, Illinois, SMU, Kansas, Indiana, Northwestern, TCU...etc.

UNI has been ranked in the Top 30 in the nation in attendance 22 of the past 25 seasons.

NCAA Attendance
NCAA Logo
Top 30

National RPI

UNI has finished ranked in the Top 30 in RPI in each of the past three seasons.

Season Awards

  • Kira Fallert was named Co-MVC Player of the Year, marking the 13th time a Panther has earned the league’s MVP award.

  • Erin Powers picked up Co-MVC Libero of the Year honors. She joins Ellie Blankenship (2010) and Sydney Petersen (2022) as the only Panthers to receive the award.

  • Head coach Bobbi Petersen was named MVC Coach of the Year for
    a record ninth time.

  • Fallert and Powers joined Kacie Rewerts and Olivia Tjernagel as
    UNI’s four First Team All-MVC selections this season.

  • Cassidy Hartman and Lily Dykstra both earned Second Team All-MVC honors.

  • Academically, Fallert was recognized off the court as the MVC
    Scholar-Athlete of the Year, along with her third straight
    MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team honor.

  • Kacie Rewerts was also named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team.

Co-MVC Player of the Year
Co-MVC Libero of the Year
MVC Coach of the Year - Bobbi
First Team All-MVC
Second Team All-MVC
MVC All-Tournament Team
AVCA All-American Honorable Mention - Kira
AVCA All-Region
MVC Elite 18 Award - Kira
MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year - Kira
MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team - Kacie
CSC Academic All-American - Kira

Impressive History of the UNI Volleyball Program

  • UNI has won a total of 20 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championships and 22 Missouri Valley Conference Regular Season Championships
  • 26 NCAA tournament appearances & has advanced to at least the second round 17 times
  • 3 NCAA Sweet 16 appearances
  • The 2024 season marked the 40th 20-win season
  • UNI has gone 59-1 in the last three years against MVC opponents
  • Only UNI, Hawaii, Nebraska, Stanford, Penn State, and UCLA have had over 40 consecutive non-losing seasons in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball
  • UNI posted 35 consecutive NCAA Division I winning seasons - and was the sixth-longest active streak in the nation behind Hawaii (38), Nebraska (38), Penn State (38), Stanford (38), and UCLA (36)
  • UNI has been ranked in 119 polls in AVCA Top 25 history featuring 25 appearances in the Top 10 and appeared in the polls in both 2018 and 2019
  • 142 All-MVC selections including 96 All-MVC First-Team selections, 16 MVC Players of the Year, and 17 MVC Tournament MVP's
  • 44 Panthers have been voted to the AVCA’s all-district or all-region teams
  • 19 AVCA All-America honors
  • Bobbi Petersen - National Coach of the Year (2002); Central Region Coach of the Year (2001, 2002, 2018, 2019); MVC Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • UNI has ranked in the top-30 in home attendance 22 of last 25 seasons